Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-04


pretty thoroughly made up regarding
the leading political issue, and even were
it not so ii is questionable If any expires.
sion of popular feeling now would
change the attitude of the parties in par.
lament. The coalition opposed to home
rule appears so be as strong as it has
ever been, and it would probably not
weaken before any popular dcmonstra-
ton that could reasonably be expected.
Mr.. Gladstone has gone to Wales, where
he will deliver number OF addresses in
favor of home rule. This would indicate
that his health is not in so pre-
carious a condition as has recently been
represented. With regard to the health
of Parnell, also, it is reported to have
improved, but the promise is not good
that he will be able 10 resume active DO.
litical work. The announcement of the
serious illness of Sexton is calculated to
alarm the friends of Ireland He is one of
Parnelrs most able, careful and trust
worthy lieutenants.
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The condition of the Crown Prince OF
Germany improves slowly. He is well
| and hearty, but voiceless, or nearly so.
lie will no doubt improve in this respect
to some extent when his throat RECEIVERS
| from the immediate effect of the opera
| ton performed by DR.. Morrell Macken-
| zie, but his voice cannot be fully re-
stored until the growth is entirely cleared
| away. In view of the alarmist rumors
that have been flying about, it may be
we'll to state that this growth,
which is not much larger than
q split pea, has been pronounced
by Prof Rudolph Virchow to be
no more malignant than a common
wart. This statement is the confident
decision, after careful microscopic ex-
animation, of the pope of modern patho-
logy. 1t is this which makes DR.. Mac.
kenzie's operation of such cardinal i'm
portance rs regards the future of the
patient. 1t is now proved that the dis.
ease from which he is suffering owes its
chief, If not only importance to the
situation of an enemy not terrible in
himself, but who stands in the very gate
way of life, and must therefore be got
rid of. German surgeons were on the
point of doing this with display of
energy as superfluous as the use of n
battering-ram to crush black BEETLE.
1t was not merely making an artificial
opening in the windpipe that was in con-
temptation, but the infinitely more
formidable operation of partial excision
of the organ of voice. To say nothing of
the great risk of life necessarily involved
in this, the prince, even If he had sur
vived, would have ceased to belong in
the category of articulately speaking men
and could have only communicated with
the outer world in gruff whisper.
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The temperance question seems to
have been definitely settled in Switzer-
land by the result of the popular vote, or
referendum, as it is called, taken on the
18th ultimo, on the federal law giving the
the government the sole right to manu-
facture and sell spirituous liquors. The
law has been approved by vote of
252, 791 to 127,474 This is doubtless to
the American prohibitionlsts an awful
piece of legislation, as engaging the gov.
ernment in criminal enterprise, but
the Swiss people, who have been for
some years back wrestling with the
liquor question, owing to the terrible in
crease of drunkenness in the Cantons
have concluded that in no other way can
they so effectively diminish the quantity
of liquor consumed, and at the same
time secure the purity of what is con
sumed. Of course they could not reach
this conclusion by starting from the great
premise of the prohibitionists that liquor
dealing and murder are in the eye of the
moralist exactly the same thing. They
reach it by starting from the premise
which is that of the great majority Of
rational men, that the moderate con
sumption of alcoholic drinks, even if II
be physiological mistake, is not in itselt
an otfense against the community and
that it is the excessive consumption
which society has to complain Of and is
bound to repress, until the individual
man has learned that his wisest course i:
to abstain wholly.
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A letter from Russian is gwen to the
American manufacturer, which takes the
ground that only very limited quantities
of petroleum can be produced from the
Baku district. 1t produced 1900, 900 bar
rels during 1886, and he does not think
the district capable of producing over
5000, 900 barrels. The Russian crude pro
duces only 80 or 35 per cent of illumina-
ting oil, and q Rsngoon correspondent oi
the London Times says that neither the
Burmese oil or the Russian can be consid
cred equal IN illuminative quality to the
American. In Akyab, Burmah, are 6
large number of wells, some of them
from 500 to 1900 feet in depth, which
were opened four years ago, but the flow
was so small that they could not compete
with the American product. In one dis
trict OF Burmah the oil is drawn up ir
buckets by women who walk down 6
path pulling a rope which passes over O
windlass. American kerosene now lights
the world, and will continue to probably
as long as the supply lasts, and oil is used
for this purpose.
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, The English have recently had ex
posed p very sad state of things in tina
department which every European gov
ernment is supposed to watch with the